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co., PHoToLn'Ho, wAsmN UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD G. PARKHURST, OF HARTFORD, CONN., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND THEPRATTSU WHITNEY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CARTRIDGE-FEED CASE FOR MACHINE-GUNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,007, dated June 22.1880.

Application filed March 15, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may coacerm' Be it known that I, EDWARD G. PART@ BURST,of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanism for FeedingCartridges to Machine-Guns; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whereby a personskilled in the art can makev and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon.

Lilie letters in the figures indicate the same parts.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of the boxes inwhich the cartrid ges for machine-guns are placed and transported, andin the receiving guide or hopper in which they are placed, and by whichthey are carried to the lock and loading mechanism, whereby the placingof the cartridges in the gun is more rapidly and eiectuallyaccomplished.

The object oi' my invention is to save time and trouble in transferringthe cartridges from the ammunition-cases to the gun when the arm is inuse, and to placethem with such accuracy oi' position in' the gun thatthey will be sure to be properly fired.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of one of myimproved cartridgecases in the position of placing the cartridges in thereceiver of the4 gun, the receiver being shown in section. Fig. 2 is atop or end View oi' the improved cartridge case and receiver in theposition shown in Fi g. l. Fig. 3 is afront view of the receiver'.

A is a block, commonly of wood, bored full of holes for the reception ofthe cartridges upon one side, into which the cartridges are insertedball foremost, so as to leave the heads nearly in the same plane.

B is a cover, made of tin-plate or other sheet metal, bent into the formshown in Fig. 2. It has twolongitudinal dan ges, B', which enter intolongitudinal grooves A in the block A,

so that the cover slides on lengthwise and isl held in position by theflanges. This cover holds the cartridges in the block and prevents theirfalling out in transportation.

D is the receiver. It is intended to be attached to and form part of thegun and to be held rmlyin position upon it, and is provided withchannels E, leading directly to the chambers, from which the cartridgeis pushed into the barrel by the lock mechanism. The channels E areconstructed so as to hold the cartridges by the heads, the front of thechannel being just of sufcient width to receive the body of thecartridge-shell and enlarged at the rear to form a groove for theprojecting heads.

D D are daring sides above the channels E, intended to guide the cover Btoits proper seat on the receiver. They may be extended upward to anydistance required to easily and quickly enter the cover of thecartridge-case between thm and pass it down to its seat upon the top ofthe parts E', forming the sides of the channels. The back oi' D in theplane of the bottom of the channels is continued upward to the height ofthe daring sides D or a littleabove them.

The operation of myinvention is as follows: The case A B, with thecartridges contained within it, is taken in the hand, and the lower endoi' the cover placed against the back of the receiver D. The case isthen passed downward uutilthe cover is guided by the sides D D to itsproper scat. The block A then continues to move downward with thecontained cartridges, whiclr pass into the channels E, the cover beingretained in its seat upon the top of the channels. When the block passesbelow the cover al1 the cartridges are entered in the channels and thecover falls oli'. The cartridges are thus placed in the gun at onemotion of the hand, carrying the block downward.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. The receiver D, provided withflaring sides and seat at the top of the channels for guiding andholding the coverB, 'substantially as described.

2. The combination of a sliding top cartridge-case with a receiverprovided with a seat for the cover of said case and with channels forthe heads of the cartridges, substantially as described.'

EDWARD Gr. PARKHURST.

Witnesses:

THEO. G. ELLIS, WILMOT ,Honfrom

